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Invitation to Book Launch Webinar – Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges

You are cordially invited to the book launch where you will hear from the editors of Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges who will address the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges.

Christopher Raymond | 8 Sep 2021

Why Arbitration in Business and Human Rights Disputes Enhances Labor Rights

While many human rights lawyers might legitimately think that consensus submitting all business-related disputes to arbitration was never in doubt, they will be surprised to discover that this was not...

Ilias Bantekas, Michael Ashley Stein | 8 Sep 2021

The Vision for the Global Quantum Internet

An outlook for how a global quantum ecosystem enabled by the quantum internet could emerge. Credit- Peter P. Rohde The true power of classical computing was never fully realised until the emergence...

Peter P. Rohde | 7 Sep 2021

Dreams, Resilience and Afghanistan

Why do we dream when we are sleeping? In his book Livewired, the neuroscientist David Eagleman offers a fascinating explanation. In the constant competition for ‘brain real estate’, he argues, our...

Janine Natalya Clark | 6 Sep 2021

Modern Alienation, Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Today people tend to talk a lot about alienation as a modern crisis. We are said to feel a sense of alienation from our government, our economic system, our workplace, our religion, our community, and...

Jon Stewart | 2 Sep 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: The ambition to survive

To make a difference to mid-century outcomes, we must be ambitious to survive and plan our climate response in full awareness of tipping point deadlines

Julian Caldecott | 2 Sep 2021

Urban health in the Middle Ages and Today: Changing Community Politics and Environments

Through vaccination campaigns and lifting restrictions, authorities across the globe are promoting the idea of a return to normal, yet which form the ‘end’ of the COVID pandemic will take is uncertain....

Janna Coomans | 30 Aug 2021

Conversations on Quantum Gravity

The following press release was first published courtesy of University of Amsterdam: https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/08/conversations-on-quantum-gravity.htmlhttps://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/08/conversations-on-quantum-gravity.html ‘Conversations...

Jácome (Jay) Armas | 26 Aug 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: Death spirals and deadlines

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, as well as frantic international negotiations before CoP 26 in Glasgow. This is while...

Julian Caldecott | 26 Aug 2021

Assessing Afghanistan with the Unified War Theory

America’s hasty extrication from its war in Afghanistan was anything but smooth, and now the world’s leading superpower’s two-decade misadventure there has ended with a shocking, humiliating defeat....

Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss | 25 Aug 2021

Thinking Inside the Box

When my siblings and I were very young, our mother created a ‘Get Better Box’. This small cardboard box housed a collection of tiny toys and unusual household objects, and was brought out whenever...

Lucy Razzall | 23 Aug 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: Fierce chaos and tipping points

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, as well as frantic international negotiations before CoP 26 in Glasgow. This is while...

Julian Caldecott | 19 Aug 2021